Introduction Gad Heuman and Trevor Burnard Part I: Slavery as a Global Institution 1. Ancient: Greek & Roman Walter Shiedel 2. African Paul Lovejoy 3. Indian Ocean Gwyn Campbell 4. Native American Slavery Alan Gallay 5. Origins of Early Modern Slavery Betty Wood 6. Transatlantic Slave Trade David Eltis Part II: The Character of Slavery 7. Work Philip Morgan 8. Demography Richard Follett 9. Family & Gender Jennifer Morgan or Diana Paton 10. Religion Sylvia Frey 11. Slave Culture Shane White 12. Slave Economy Roderick McDonald 13. Slave Resistance Stephanie Camp 14. Slave Rebellions Gad Heuman 15. Planter Class Trevor Burnard 16. Free Coloureds John Garrigus Part III: Changes and Continuities 17. Revolutions Sue Peabody 18. Abolition Christopher Brown 19. Forging Freedom Rebecca Scott 20. Modern Slavery Kevin Bales 21. Commemorations and Remembrance Catherine Hall
Biography
Gad Heuman is Professor of History and has served as Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Between Black and White (1981), The Killing Time (1994) and The Caribbean (2006). He is the editor of the journal, Slavery & Abolition.
Trevor Burnard is Professor of American History at the University of Warwick. He specialises in the history of plantation societies and slavery in the Americas and is the author of Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (2004).
'The editors have gathered an outstanding collection of scholars who contribute brief, informative, up-to-date, and sometimes powerful essays on slavery, predominantly plantation slavery in the Americas. The volume kicks off with single essays about Greek and Roman slavery, slavery in Africa, and then slavery in the Indian Ocean world, the latter perhaps being the subject most unknown of any covered here. From there, the volume moves to the slave trade in the New World and the origins of slavery in the Americas. Part 2, "The Character of Slavery," features a particularly fine essay by Jennifer Morgan on gender and family life. Indeed, an emphasis on how gender shaped slavery itself is a particularly strong point of the volume. Part 3 includes four essays on slavery and freedom through the age of revolution and abolition, and concludes with a piece on modern slavery. The net result is as fine a scholarly introduction and resource volume as currently exists, indispensable for university libraries. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.' - P. Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
